THE CALCEOLARIA. 



(.'alcajldrii' hi/brida. 



VIIIBITIONS have so greatly in- 

 liueneed Horleultural tastes that 

 we may be forgiven if for a 

 moment we permit this flower 

 to stir old memories. In the 

 Course of the fifty or sixty }'ears 

 that it has Leen in cultivation it 

 las passed through all the jthases 

 incident to a proper florists' dower, 

 md happily it remains for such as 

 ( an enjoy it, though it has fallen 

 from its high estate. This may, to 

 the reader who is uninitiated in the 

 lioial mysteries, appear to be a dread- 

 lul fate for such a beautiful thing. 

 I)ut indeed it is not. When the 

 fl iwer was rising into fame the florists 

 -;a\e names to their choice varieties, 

 ind these were jjropagated by divi- 

 sions and cuttings, to maintain them in the fnll integrity 

 of their floral characters. But the fashion for named 



